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Two blowouts, one night
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Seven players added to Tribe’s 40-man roster
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Hey, somebody's gotta stick up for the Browns
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Singletary update
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Gameblog: Cavs at Indiana Pacers – Here’s to LBJ and Free Throws
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OSU – Michigan college football rivals meet in Baghdad
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Bowling season starts today
All Da King's Men:
Attention Haters, Palin And Hannity Together
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Muslim McCarthyism & Death Prayers
Akron Law Café:
Federal Judge Declares DOMA Unconstitutional
See Jane Style:
Car Chase:
TIME TO GET YOUR COLLECTOR CARS WINTERIZED
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Silverdome Potentially SOLD!
Ohio Travels with Betty:
Norma asks if Barkitecture is still at Stan Hywet.
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Steely Dan Plays "The Royal Scam" at E.J. Thomas Hall
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Colloquium at University of Akron
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Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
Published on Sunday, Nov 01, 2009
Canal fever once was a fearsome malady, with workers dying of typhoid, cholera and smallpox while digging the canal. But that's so 19th century. The new canal fever is enthusiasm about the transformation of the crumbling remains into a vital recreational resource. Catch the latter by reading Canal Fever: The Ohio & Erie Canal From Waterway to Canalway.
Edited by Lynn Metzger, a cultural anthropologist, and Peg Bobel, first executive director of the Cuyahoga Valley Association, this major work is both comprehensive and inviting. With essays by experts on the canal's construction, the people who made their livelihoods on its route, competition with railroads and the advent of preservation, Canal Fever is a notable work that makes a discussion of sandstone quarrying interesting. There are many photos, and illustrations by artist Chuck Ayers, including the sheet music to My Little Silver Ribbon, the nickname an old canaller gave to his longtime home.
Canal Fever (392 pages, hardcover) costs $45 from Kent State University Press. Metzger, Bober and Ayers will discuss and sign the book from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Akron-Summit County Public Library, 60 S. High St., Akron. Guide for writers with bad karma
Write for Your Lives: Inspire Your Creative Writing With Buddhist Wisdom is an unusual kind of writers' guide: It approaches what its author, Cleveland psychotherapist Joseph Sestito, calls the ''10 types of cognitive distortions,'' attitudes that cause the writer to have unhealthy emotions and therefore bad karma, undermining progress. These distortions include jumping to conclusions, obsessing about details and taking rejection personally.
Using exercises and workshops, Sestito explains how to overcome these problems, enabling the writer to ultimately ''contribute to the transformation of the world.'' Profound, but this book is not for the dilettante. Write for Your Lives (192 pages, softcover) costs $19.95 from Sterling Publishing.
Some inspiration
from high schools
Sometimes it seems as though professional sports get all the attention. But the Beacon Journal's David Lee Morgan Jr. has won awards for his coverage of high school athletics, and he has collected 64 of his most uplifting columns to produce High School Heroes: Stories of Inspiration, Dedication and Hope.
Beginning with a 1996 column about a white Jackson football coach and his family who opened their home to a black student, and including undersized freshmen, devoted coaches, stalwart parents and, of course, LeBron James, Morgan provides something to cheer about for the reader who's fed up with the pros. High School Heroes (203 pages, softcover) costs $19.95 from the University of Akron Press.
Events
National First Ladies' Library (205 Market Ave. S., Canton) — Children's author Gibbs Davis will sign her books Wackiest White House Pets and First Kids, the latter in an exclusive two months before its release date, from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday.
Borders (30121 Detroit Road, Westlake) — Seattle executive Shari Storm signs Motherhood is the New MBA, which translates parenting rules into successful management techniques, 7 p.m. Tuesday; Tracy Morgan (30 Rock) will sign I Am the New Black, 2 p.m. Saturday (line numbers will be issued).
Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Legacy Village, Lyndhurst) — Wil Haygood discusses and signs Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, 7 p.m. Tuesday; Ohio Democratic Party chairman Chris Redfern and photographer Nannette Bedway discuss and sign As Ohio Goes: Stories and Photos from the Front Lines, a documentary of the 2008 election, 7 p.m. Wednesday; Laquania Graham signs My Soul on Paper III: Just When I Thought I Was Free, 7 p.m. Thursday; writer and illustrator Michael Berenstain gives a drawing demonstration and signs books from the Berenstain Bears children's series, 1 p.m. Saturday.
Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square (1511 Euclid Ave., Cleveland) — Political satirist Christopher Buckley appears as part of the William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage 2009-2010 program. Individual tickets are $30; call the PlayhouseSquare ticket office at 216-241-6000 or visit http://www.playhousesquare.org. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Lakewood Public Library (15425 Detroit Ave.) — Veteran journalist Doris O'Donnell discusses and signs Front-Page Girl, 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Barnes & Noble (4015 Medina Road, Bath Township) — Neil Gandal signs the fascinating Coming Up Short: A Cleveland Sports Odyssey, 7 p.m. Friday; former Stow resident Michelle Wildgen signs her well-reviewed novel But Not for Long, 7 p.m. Saturday.
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (1680 Madison Ave., Wooster Township) — The 22nd annual Buckeye Book Fair presents almost 100 authors with Ohio connections, signing their works from cookbooks to children's books to sports books. Cleveland antique expert Terry Kovel is a first-timer. 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
— Barbara McIntyre
Special to the Beacon Journal
Send information about books of local interest to Lynne Sherwin, Features Department, Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309 orlsherwin@thebeaconjournal.com. Event notices should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
Canal fever once was a fearsome malady, with workers dying of typhoid, cholera and smallpox while digging the canal. But that's so 19th century. The new canal fever is enthusiasm about the transformation of the crumbling remains into a vital recreational resource. Catch the latter by reading Canal Fever: The Ohio & Erie Canal From Waterway to Canalway.
Edited by Lynn Metzger, a cultural anthropologist, and Peg Bobel, first executive director of the Cuyahoga Valley Association, this major work is both comprehensive and inviting. With essays by experts on the canal's construction, the people who made their livelihoods on its route, competition with railroads and the advent of preservation, Canal Fever is a notable work that makes a discussion of sandstone quarrying interesting. There are many photos, and illustrations by artist Chuck Ayers, including the sheet music to My Little Silver Ribbon, the nickname an old canaller gave to his longtime home.
Canal Fever (392 pages, hardcover) costs $45 from Kent State University Press. Metzger, Bober and Ayers will discuss and sign the book from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Akron-Summit County Public Library, 60 S. High St., Akron. Guide for writers with bad karma
Write for Your Lives: Inspire Your Creative Writing With Buddhist Wisdom is an unusual kind of writers' guide: It approaches what its author, Cleveland psychotherapist Joseph Sestito, calls the ''10 types of cognitive distortions,'' attitudes that cause the writer to have unhealthy emotions and therefore bad karma, undermining progress. These distortions include jumping to conclusions, obsessing about details and taking rejection personally.
Using exercises and workshops, Sestito explains how to overcome these problems, enabling the writer to ultimately ''contribute to the transformation of the world.'' Profound, but this book is not for the dilettante. Write for Your Lives (192 pages, softcover) costs $19.95 from Sterling Publishing.
Some inspiration
from high schools
Sometimes it seems as though professional sports get all the attention. But the Beacon Journal's David Lee Morgan Jr. has won awards for his coverage of high school athletics, and he has collected 64 of his most uplifting columns to produce High School Heroes: Stories of Inspiration, Dedication and Hope.
Beginning with a 1996 column about a white Jackson football coach and his family who opened their home to a black student, and including undersized freshmen, devoted coaches, stalwart parents and, of course, LeBron James, Morgan provides something to cheer about for the reader who's fed up with the pros. High School Heroes (203 pages, softcover) costs $19.95 from the University of Akron Press.
Events
National First Ladies' Library (205 Market Ave. S., Canton) — Children's author Gibbs Davis will sign her books Wackiest White House Pets and First Kids, the latter in an exclusive two months before its release date, from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday.
Borders (30121 Detroit Road, Westlake) — Seattle executive Shari Storm signs Motherhood is the New MBA, which translates parenting rules into successful management techniques, 7 p.m. Tuesday; Tracy Morgan (30 Rock) will sign I Am the New Black, 2 p.m. Saturday (line numbers will be issued).
Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Legacy Village, Lyndhurst) — Wil Haygood discusses and signs Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, 7 p.m. Tuesday; Ohio Democratic Party chairman Chris Redfern and photographer Nannette Bedway discuss and sign As Ohio Goes: Stories and Photos from the Front Lines, a documentary of the 2008 election, 7 p.m. Wednesday; Laquania Graham signs My Soul on Paper III: Just When I Thought I Was Free, 7 p.m. Thursday; writer and illustrator Michael Berenstain gives a drawing demonstration and signs books from the Berenstain Bears children's series, 1 p.m. Saturday.
Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square (1511 Euclid Ave., Cleveland) — Political satirist Christopher Buckley appears as part of the William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage 2009-2010 program. Individual tickets are $30; call the PlayhouseSquare ticket office at 216-241-6000 or visit http://www.playhousesquare.org. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Lakewood Public Library (15425 Detroit Ave.) — Veteran journalist Doris O'Donnell discusses and signs Front-Page Girl, 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Barnes & Noble (4015 Medina Road, Bath Township) — Neil Gandal signs the fascinating Coming Up Short: A Cleveland Sports Odyssey, 7 p.m. Friday; former Stow resident Michelle Wildgen signs her well-reviewed novel But Not for Long, 7 p.m. Saturday.
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (1680 Madison Ave., Wooster Township) — The 22nd annual Buckeye Book Fair presents almost 100 authors with Ohio connections, signing their works from cookbooks to children's books to sports books. Cleveland antique expert Terry Kovel is a first-timer. 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
— Barbara McIntyre
Special to the Beacon Journal
Send information about books of local interest to Lynne Sherwin, Features Department, Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309 orlsherwin@thebeaconjournal.com. Event notices should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
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